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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
To all survivors here: we see you, we hear you, we believe you. Together we are making a difference ❤️
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My healing goals are being able to feel comfortable in my body again. For a long time and even now, I still feel that I don’t deserve anything but hell itself. I’m working on that though.
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You are not a burden or unworthy of love. You have always deserved love and understanding. Feel all that you need to feel and know that you are not at fault.
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If you’re messaging someone on a dating app/website and they are making you uncomfortable, unmatch from them. Your safety and comfort with interactions are important.
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Getting it down in writing and sharing does help lighten the load a little
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I wish when I was younger I understand the value of healing. Instead, I tried to persevere and suppress only to find myself in a toxic relationship trying to do my best for my children. Healing means, finding my normal.
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To me, healing means learning to live with what happened and carrying that with you.
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I know not feeling believed can be rough. Sometimes I don’t even believe myself but I’ll believe you because I know that if I had just one person who believed me, that would make me feel seen and would help me heal.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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Tune into your body. Learn how to listen to your body and communicate with your body and use your body to create safety and connection.
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Time is the only healer in reality, but sharing your story with whoever you need to is super important. Let your feeling be validated, seek empathy from loved ones and not sympathy.
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Healing is being with my daughters. It’s sitting on the couch, watching a movie next to them. It’s hugging them twenty times a day just because I can. That is my healing, and right now it’s also my mission — a full-blown mission to get back to that place of love, safety, and normalcy with them.
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Talk, therapy, know it’s nothing you did, know you are amazing and don’t let those sad bastards take that away from you.
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You have the power and that soul of yours is full of love. The world needs you!
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If you are going through abuse please do not feel the need to brush it off. Get Help, tell someone.
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It means learning to live, for myself, the 1st time. It means placing 1 foot in front of the other , while leaning on my faith to help me through.
Report
This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
My healing goals are being able to feel comfortable in my body again. For a long time and even now, I still feel that I don’t deserve anything but hell itself. I’m working on that though.
Report
I wish when I was younger I understand the value of healing. Instead, I tried to persevere and suppress only to find myself in a toxic relationship trying to do my best for my children. Healing means, finding my normal.
Report
To me, healing means learning to live with what happened and carrying that with you.
Report
Time is the only healer in reality, but sharing your story with whoever you need to is super important. Let your feeling be validated, seek empathy from loved ones and not sympathy.
Report
Healing is being with my daughters. It’s sitting on the couch, watching a movie next to them. It’s hugging them twenty times a day just because I can. That is my healing, and right now it’s also my mission — a full-blown mission to get back to that place of love, safety, and normalcy with them.
Report
If you are going through abuse please do not feel the need to brush it off. Get Help, tell someone.
Report
It means learning to live, for myself, the 1st time. It means placing 1 foot in front of the other , while leaning on my faith to help me through.
Report
To all survivors here: we see you, we hear you, we believe you. Together we are making a difference ❤️
Report
Getting it down in writing and sharing does help lighten the load a little
Report
You have the power and that soul of yours is full of love. The world needs you!
Report
You are not a burden or unworthy of love. You have always deserved love and understanding. Feel all that you need to feel and know that you are not at fault.
Report
If you’re messaging someone on a dating app/website and they are making you uncomfortable, unmatch from them. Your safety and comfort with interactions are important.
Report
I know not feeling believed can be rough. Sometimes I don’t even believe myself but I’ll believe you because I know that if I had just one person who believed me, that would make me feel seen and would help me heal.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
Tune into your body. Learn how to listen to your body and communicate with your body and use your body to create safety and connection.
Report
Talk, therapy, know it’s nothing you did, know you are amazing and don’t let those sad bastards take that away from you.
Report
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Grounding activity
Find a comfortable place to sit. Gently close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths - in through your nose (count to 3), out through your mouth (count of 3). Now open your eyes and look around you. Name the following out loud:
5 – things you can see (you can look within the room and out of the window)
4 – things you can feel (what is in front of you that you can touch?)
3 – things you can hear
2 – things you can smell
1 – thing you like about yourself.
Take a deep breath to end.
From where you are sitting, look around for things that have a texture or are nice or interesting to look at.
Hold an object in your hand and bring your full focus to it. Look at where shadows fall on parts of it or maybe where there are shapes that form within the object. Feel how heavy or light it is in your hand and what the surface texture feels like under your fingers (This can also be done with a pet if you have one).
Take a deep breath to end.
Ask yourself the following questions and answer them out loud:
1. Where am I?
2. What day of the week is today?
3. What is today’s date?
4. What is the current month?
5. What is the current year?
6. How old am I?
7. What season is it?
Take a deep breath to end.
Put your right hand palm down on your left shoulder. Put your left hand palm down on your right shoulder. Choose a sentence that will strengthen you. For example: “I am powerful.” Say the sentence out loud first and pat your right hand on your left shoulder, then your left hand on your right shoulder.
Alternate the patting. Do ten pats altogether, five on each side, each time repeating your sentences aloud.
Take a deep breath to end.
Cross your arms in front of you and draw them towards your chest. With your right hand, hold your left upper arm. With your left hand, hold your right upper arm. Squeeze gently, and pull your arms inwards. Hold the squeeze for a little while, finding the right amount of squeeze for you in this moment. Hold the tension and release. Then squeeze for a little while again and release. Stay like that for a moment.
Take a deep breath to end.